I guess they'll just have to settle for being pale and interesting!
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Yes, I know it's a fake article written by ChatGPT, I just wondered if anyone would spot it as such.
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Clitheroekid wrote:It seems that Irish women should abandon their beloved fake tan, as it's deemed to be cultural appropriation - https://archive.is/oWcVH
I guess they'll just have to settle for being pale and interesting!
Yes, I know it's a fake article written by ChatGPT, I just wondered if anyone would spot it as such.
stevensfo wrote:Clitheroekid wrote:It seems that Irish women should abandon their beloved fake tan, as it's deemed to be cultural appropriation - https://archive.is/oWcVH
I guess they'll just have to settle for being pale and interesting!
Yes, I know it's a fake article written by ChatGPT, I just wondered if anyone would spot it as such.
To me, fake tan represents more than just an innocuous cosmetic choice; it raises questions of cultural appropriation and fetishisation of the high melanin content found in more pigmented people.
I wonder if the author is writing tongue in cheek, or is really serious.
bungeejumper wrote:Interesting that a woman with fake blue hair is upset by other people wearing fake tanned skin. No apparent awareness that she's culturally appropriating the hue of the African blue monkey. Or, for that matter, a mandrill's bottom.![]()
BJ
The article suggested that Irish women's widespread use of false tanning products was cultural appropriation and thus offensive to people of colour. Minority activists in Ireland and elsewhere have previously made this argument.
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Within 24 hours of publication, social media users were querying the authenticity of the author, suggesting the byline picture of a blue-haired Latin American woman had been created by artificial intelligence. 'Blue hair' is a pejorative term used by far-right actors to describe "aggressive, unpleasant" feminists.
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In a message to readers on the newspaper's website on Sunday, Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic said the article was "a hoax; the person we were corresponding with was not who they claimed to be. We had fallen victim to a deliberate and co-ordinated deception".
bungeejumper wrote:OK, it's a hoax: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41139025.html
And the apology is worth a read:The article suggested that Irish women's widespread use of false tanning products was cultural appropriation and thus offensive to people of colour. Minority activists in Ireland and elsewhere have previously made this argument.
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Within 24 hours of publication, social media users were querying the authenticity of the author, suggesting the byline picture of a blue-haired Latin American woman had been created by artificial intelligence. 'Blue hair' is a pejorative term used by far-right actors to describe "aggressive, unpleasant" feminists.
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In a message to readers on the newspaper's website on Sunday, Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic said the article was "a hoax; the person we were corresponding with was not who they claimed to be. We had fallen victim to a deliberate and co-ordinated deception".
Hope that settles it.![]()
BJ
stevensfo wrote:bungeejumper wrote:OK, it's a hoax: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41139025.html
And the apology is worth a read:
Hope that settles it.![]()
BJ
'Blue hair' is a pejorative term used by far-right actors to describe "aggressive, unpleasant" feminists.
How can one possibly keep up with all these new ideas, what's acceptable, what isn't, what's offensive, what's non-PC etc?
Maybe I'm confusing it with 'Blue-rinse'? Isn't that an elderly woman who is desperate to attract attention?
Steve
PS You realise that the pyramid structure on top of the Louvre is 'cultural appropriation'.
Shall I tell them, or will you?
mc2fool wrote:Nevertheless, while I know they also exist here, I am always somewhat amused/bemused when I visit the Indian sub-continent by the ubiquity of billboards and pharmacy store fronts that advertise skin whitening creams. It seems they want to be whiter and we want to be browner*. Maybe there's a "perfect" colour in the middle ... (hypothetical question!)
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* But it's not always been so ... in Victorian times women here used to apply arsenic and a variety of other noxious substances to their faces in order to appear as pale as possible! ('Twas Coco Chanel in the 1920s that popularised the idea of a suntan.)
https://mollybrown.org/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-how-victorians-used-common-poisons-to-become-drop-dead-gorgeous/
Watis wrote:So, I - or anyone - would be guilty of cultural appropriation if I wear clothing from another culture, or style my hair in a way that another culture does.
Like most of us I enjoy a curry - but I'm not Indian. Likewise pizza - but I'm not Italian.
Why, then, is food exempt from claims of cultural appropriation - and for how long?
Although oddly when the 100% white Rachel Dolezal represented herself as black to the point of becoming a President of the US NAACP before being outed, she seemed to get a pass. Funny that.
terminal7 wrote:Although oddly when the 100% white Rachel Dolezal represented herself as black to the point of becoming a President of the US NAACP before being outed, she seemed to get a pass. Funny that.
Whoa there Lootperson - it appears she was deeply disturbed on several levels and her life descended into petty criminality. Her Presidency only lasted a short time and despite initial support from the NAACP she quickly 'resigned' and was cut adrift from other organisations.
Watis wrote:So, I - or anyone - would be guilty of cultural appropriation if I wear clothing from another culture, or style my hair in a way that another culture does.
Like most of us I enjoy a curry - but I'm not Indian. Likewise pizza - but I'm not Italian.
Why, then, is food exempt from claims of cultural appropriation - and for how long?
Watis
UncleEbenezer wrote:Many years ago a madwoman told me it was inappropriate that I should sing in Handel's Messiah, because I'm not a Christian.
The answer to that is of course that good music (indeed, good anything) is universal, no matter what its tribal roots may be (and some music has very strong tribal roots - particularly in the bitter divide between Catholic and Lutheran tribes). Today a transient tribal identity is asserted whenever a new generation finds a way to shock or baffle its parents (or "The Establishment").
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